hello there and a merry christmas and a happy new year to one and all (even ross). we had a real cool christmas and jenn and co. cooked up a reet ol’ feast. i did the washing up.
well today is boxing day and so a couple of us who werent working went for a mountain cruise on our whizz planks. i filmed the first run from the staff housing down to the gondola. it lasts for about a minute and isnt particularly amazing but towards the end john does an ollie, gnarly stuff! when your actually strapped into the board and your hurtling down a hill it actually looks a lot faster, the filming doesnt really do it justice.
ian
Check out our Christmas dinner. A successful dinner for 13 was produced! Everyone put in $10 each and I managed to use 3 kitchens cooking 2 turkeys, roast potatoes, bacon wrapped sausages, stuffing, peas, carrots and gravy. The only thing missing was bread sauce. I think that was my biggest cooking challenge yet but everyone was stuffed at the end especially when my flatmate Andy made apple and pear struddel and his mate turned up with strawberry shortcake and cheesecake. The only person missing was John who unfortunately had to work in the evening.
I am starting to make progress now on my snowboarding skills. On Saturday I did my first ski run called the Ego Bowl and I did it all backwards! Right now I am really good using my toe edge but not my heal edge which for those of you who have no idea what I’m talking about that means going down backwards. Next time I aim to do it forwards! Apparently I have learnt the hard way first and can’t do it the easy way. I have also used my first chair lift and managed to exit gracefully without falling over. I am very impressed with myself.
On a different note the internet communications tower in Whistler has blown up so there is no internet. I am using one of the 5 or 6 available computers to type this!!
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